get-identity-context¶

Description¶

Retrieves the identity context for a Quick Sight user in a specified namespace, allowing you to obtain identity tokens that can be used with identity-enhanced IAM role sessions to call identity-aware APIs.

Currently, you can call the following APIs with identity-enhanced Credentials

Supported Authentication Methods

This API supports Quick Sight native users, IAM federated users, and Active Directory users. For Quick Sight users authenticated by Amazon Web Services Identity Center, see Identity Center documentation on identity-enhanced IAM role sessions .

Getting Identity-Enhanced Credentials

To obtain identity-enhanced credentials, follow these steps:

Call the GetIdentityContext API to retrieve an identity token for the specified user.
Use the identity token with the STS AssumeRole API to obtain identity-enhanced IAM role session credentials.

Usage with STS AssumeRole

The identity token returned by this API should be used with the STS AssumeRole API to obtain credentials for an identity-enhanced IAM role session. When calling AssumeRole, include the identity token in the ProvidedContexts parameter with ProviderArn set to arn:aws:iam::aws:contextProvider/QuickSight and ContextAssertion set to the identity token received from this API.

The assumed role must allow the sts:SetContext action in addition to sts:AssumeRole in its trust relationship policy. The trust policy should include both actions for the principal that will be assuming the role.

Synopsis¶

  get-identity-context
--aws-account-id <value>
--user-identifier <value>
[--namespace <value>]
[--session-expires-at <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]

Options¶

--aws-account-id (string) [required]

The ID for the Amazon Web Services account that the user whose identity context you want to retrieve is in. Currently, you use the ID for the Amazon Web Services account that contains your Quick Sight account.

Constraints:

min: 12

max: 12

pattern: ^[0-9]{12}$

--user-identifier (tagged union structure) [required]

The identifier for the user whose identity context you want to retrieve.

Note
This is a Tagged Union structure. Only one of the following top level keys can be set: UserName, Email, UserArn.

UserName -> (string)

The name of the user that you want to get identity context for.

Email -> (string)

The email address of the user that you want to get identity context for.

UserArn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the user that you want to get identity context for.

Shorthand Syntax:

UserName=string,Email=string,UserArn=string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "UserName": "string",
  "Email": "string",
  "UserArn": "string"
}

--namespace (string)

The namespace of the user that you want to get identity context for. This parameter is required when the UserIdentifier is specified using Email or UserName.

Constraints:

max: 64

pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]*$

--session-expires-at (timestamp)

The timestamp at which the session will expire.

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

Global Options¶

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command’s default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

json
text
table
yaml
yaml-stream

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

on
off
auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-binary-format (string)

The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.

base64
raw-in-base64-out

--no-cli-pager (boolean)

Disable cli pager for output.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

Output¶

Status -> (integer)

The HTTP status of the request.

RequestId -> (string)

The Amazon Web Services request ID for this operation.

Context -> (string)

The identity context information for the user. This is an identity token that should be used as the ContextAssertion parameter in the STS AssumeRole API call to obtain identity enhanced AWS credentials.

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